Does The Neil Young Joni Mitchell Joe Rogan Spotify Showdown Matter?
Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast
WNYC Studios
4.4 • 678 Ratings
🗓️ 2 February 2022
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Brian Lehrer. This is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios. It's Wednesday, February 2nd. |
| 0:14.3 | If you're looking for songs by Neil Young or Joni Mitchell or podcast episodes from the popular podcast of Brune Brown, you'll have to look |
| 0:23.5 | somewhere other than Spotify. You may have heard by now that Neil Young pulled his catalog |
| 0:28.2 | from the platform last week after issuing an ultimatum to get Spotify to D platform Joe Rogan, |
| 0:34.6 | the immensely popular podcast host who has been accused of spreading misinformation |
| 0:39.1 | about COVID-19 and vaccines and promoting treatments like Ivermectin. |
| 0:44.7 | In a letter, Young posted but quickly deleted from his website, he wrote, Spotify has a |
| 0:49.7 | responsibility to mitigate the spread of misinformation on its platform. |
| 0:54.0 | I want to let Spotify know immediately |
| 0:55.9 | today that I want all of my music off their platform. They can have Rogan or Young, not both. |
| 1:03.2 | So Spotify began to take down Neo Young's music last Wednesday. Then over the weekend, |
| 1:09.2 | Johnny Mitchell and Bray Brown followed suit. |
| 1:11.8 | Joining me now to talk about the latest controversy surrounding Spotify and Rogan is |
| 1:16.2 | Ashley Carmen, senior reporter at The Verge and the writer of the Hot Pod newsletter. |
| 1:21.8 | Ashley, thanks so much for coming on with us. Welcome to WNYC. |
| 1:25.4 | Hello, thanks for having me. |
| 1:27.3 | So, Ashley, for people who've never heard about |
| 1:30.3 | Joe Rogan or his podcast called The Joe Rogan Experience, who is he? What's his show about? And what does |
| 1:38.7 | this controversy mostly center on? Yeah. So Joe Rogan, most popularly, I would assume people would know him from the show |
| 1:46.3 | Fear Factor. He used to host it. He's a comedian. He also hosts MMA fights. And he started this |
| 1:53.5 | podcast years ago on YouTube. It was mainly distributed, but available everywhere. And mostly, |
| 1:59.4 | you know, he has a wide range of interest. |
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